Pocketbook e-reader company sues over Pocketbook.com
https://domainnamewire.com/2020/09/2...ocketbook-com/
Apparently they lost last year in an attempt to use a process called UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) to force the current owner of pocketbook.com to give it to them.
https://domainnamewire.com/2019/10/0...saved-in-udrp/
(UDRP looks like another "word" for theft to me.)
pocketbook.com was first registered in 1997, ten years before PocketBook International existed. The current owners obtained the domain name in 2010, however.
https://www.baidu.eu/domains/pocketbook.com
Apparently Site-Tools offered to sell the domain, but PocketBook balked at the price.
From PocketBook's lawsuit...
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Defendants are well aware that they infringe Pocketbook’s intellectual property rights and are causing significant harm to Pocketbook. Defendants, however, have not resolved or addressed these issues, despite having knowledge, opportunity and means to do so. For example, Pocketbook has offered to purchase the Domain Name from the Defendants, but Defendants refused to come to an agreement by callously offering to sell the Domain Name for “six figures” despite the Domain Name being used only for infringing and illicit purposes.
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It seems to me that a counter-offer would have made more sense than suing (maybe it's a negotiation tactic).
Well, at least now I know why pocketbook.com doesn't go to PocketBook the eBook seller. The fact that PocketBook wants the domain this badly hopefully means that they plan on returning to the U.S. market.
Although I'm not crazy about how they're doing it.